RANLPStud 2025 [1]
Student Research Workshop
associated with
the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language
Processing
(RANLP 2025 [2])
8-10 September 2025
Varna, Bulgaria
Further to the previous successful and highly competitive Student
Research Workshops associated with the conference 'Recent Advances in
Natural Language Processing' (RANLP, in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017,
2019, 2021 and 2023), we are pleased to announce the ninth edition of
the workshop which will be held during the main RANLP 2025 conference
days on 8-10 September 2025. The conference and the workshop will take
place again at the Black Sea city of Varna, Bulgaria.
The International Conference RANLP 2025 [3] would like to invite
students at all levels (Bachelor-, Master-, and PhD-students) to present
their ongoing or completed work at the Student Research Workshop. We
invite two types of student submissions:
* Full Papers - unpublished original research of the student.
* Short Papers - either a work in progress or a research proposal.
The aim of this workshop is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge
between young researchers by providing an excellent opportunity to
present and discuss their work in progress or completed projects to an
international research audience and receive feedback from senior
researchers.
SUBMISSIONS
We invite two types of student submissions:
* Full Papers must describe original unpublished work of the student
in any topic area of the workshop. Full papers are limited to 8 pages
for content, with 2 additional pages for references.
* Short Papers may describe either work in progress or a research
proposal. They may also be in the style of a position paper that surveys
and criticizes existing literature. Short papers must include clear
directions for future research. Submissions of this type are limited to
6 pages for content, with 2 additional pages for references.
All papers must be submitted in .pdf format through the START system.
The papers should follow the format of the main conference, described at
the RANLP website [3],
All papers must have only student authors. Submissions with non-student
authors will not be considered for review. After eventual acceptance of
the paper, the authors could add their supervisor(s) in the
Acknowledgments Section. The submissions must specify the student's
level (Bachelor-, Master-, or PhD) and the type of submission (Full or
Short).
Double submission Authors may submit the same paper at several
conferences. In this case, they must notify the organizers by filling in
the corresponding information in the submission form, as well as
notifying the contact organizer by email.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The aim of this workshop is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge
between young researchers by providing an excellent opportunity to
present and discuss their work and to receive mentorship and valuable
feedback from an international research community. The research to be
presented can come from any topic within Natural Language Processing
(NLP) and Computational Linguistics, including but not limited to the
following:
* phonetics, phonology,
* morphology;
* syntax, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, dialogue, lexicon;
* complexity;
* mathematical, statistical, machine learning and deep learning
models;
* language resources and corpora;
* crowdsourcing for creation of linguistic resources;
* electronic dictionaries, terminologies and ontologies;
* sublanguages and controlled languages;
* linked data;
* POS tagging;
* parsing;
* semantic role labelling;
* word-sense disambiguation;
* multiword expressions and computational phraseology;
* textual entailment;
* anaphora resolution;
* temporal processing;
* language generation;
* speech recognition;
* text-to-speech synthesis;
* multilingual NLP;
* machine translation, translation memory systems and computer-aided
translation tools, text simplification and readability estimation;
* knowledge acquisition;
* information retrieval;
* text categorisation;
* information extraction;
* text summarisation;
* terminology extraction;
* question answering;
* opinion mining and sentiment analysis;
* fact checking and fake news;
* stance recognition;
* hate speech and aggression detection;
* author profiling;
* dialogue systems;
* chatbots and conversational agents;
* irony and sarcasm detection;
* negation and speculation detection;
* computer-aided language learning;
* multimodal systems;
* language and vision;
* NLP for biomedical texts;
* NLP for educational applications;
* NLP for healthcare;
* NLP for financial purposes;
* NLP for legal texts;
* for the Semantic web;
* theoretical and application-orientated papers related to NLP.
All accepted papers will be presented at the Student Workshop sessions
(oral or poster) during the main conference days: 8-10 September 2025.
The articles will be issued in a special Student Session proceedings
associated with RANLP and uploaded to the ACL Anthology.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 05 July 2025
Acceptance notification: 06 August 2025
Camera-ready deadline: 20 August 2025
Workshop: 8 - 10 September 2025
All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth")
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Boris Velichkov (Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics and SUMMIT
Project, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria)
Ivelina Nikolova-Koleva (Institute of Information and Communication
Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Graphwise, Bulgaria)
Milena Slavcheva (Institute of Information and Communication
Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
Contacts: 2025-stud(a)ranlp.org
Links:
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[1] https://sites.google.com/view/ranlp-stud-2025/
[2] https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025
[3] http://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the second call for papers of the
*Workshop on Advancing NLP for Low-Resource Languages (LowResNLP) at RANLP 2025*
The most important information at a glance:
🗓️ Deadline: July 15 (NEW), Workshop: Sep 11-13
📍 Varna, Bulgaria
🌐 https://lrlnlp.github.io/website/
Despite rapid progress in Natural Language Processing (NLP), the benefits of recent advances - especially large language models (LLMs) - remain unevenly distributed. While high-resource languages like English, French, and Chinese have seen significant performance gains, low-resource languages continue to face substantial challenges across core NLP tasks such as machine translation, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition (NER), and part-of-speech tagging.
These disparities arise from a combination of factors: the scarcity of high-quality training data, limited linguistic resources, and a lack of community involvement in data collection and model development. As a result, many languages, particularly African, Indigenous, and minority languages, remain underrepresented in both academic research and deployed NLP systems.
LowResNLP is a workshop dedicated to addressing these challenges by fostering research, collaboration, and discussion around methods, resources, and evaluation practices specifically designed for low-resource languages. LowResNLP seeks to actively contribute to the field by inviting submissions that specifically address the unique challenges and opportunities involved in working with low-resource languages. The workshop welcomes a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
* Language models and large language models for low-resource languages
* Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages
* Evaluation benchmarks for language models in low-resource languages
* Language models and resources for low-resource languages in Spain
* Machine/pivot translation for low-resource languages
* Fairness in resources/models for low-resource languages
* Prompting learning strategies for large language models
* Transfer learning and Crosslingual approaches for low-resource NLP
* Massively multilingual approaches to Low-Resource NLP
Important Dates:
NEW Workshop paper submission deadline: 15 July 2025 (AoE)
Workshop paper acceptance notification: 31 July 2025
Workshop paper camera-ready versions: 30 August 2025
Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready: 8 September 2025
Workshops: 11-13 September 2025
Submission formats:
We invite the submission of both full papers and short papers.
Full papers should not exceed 8 pages (plus unlimited number of pages for references and ethics/broader impact statement).
Short papers should not exceed 4 pages (plus unlimited number of pages for references and ethics/broader impact statement).
All submissions should be prepared using the current ACL templates (see https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/index.php/submissions/).
Papers should be submitted through SoftConf: https://softconf.com/ranlp25/LowResNLP2025
Organizers:
For any questions, please drop a mail to lowresnlp-2025-organizers(a)googlegroups.com
Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares (University of Alicante, Spain; University of Havana, Cuba)
Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo (University of Alicante, Spain)
Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University, UK)
Besik Mikaberidze (Georgian Technical University, Georgia)
Simon Ostermann (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany)
Daniil Gurgurov (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany)
Philipp Müller (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany)
Kurt Micallef (University of Malta, Malta)
Claudia Borg (University of Malta, Malta)
Michal Gregor (KINIT, Slovakia)
Marián Šimko (KINIT, Slovakia)
Programme Committee:
Nora Aranberri (University of Basque Country)
Sudhansu Bala Das (School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures and Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, University of - Galway, Ireland)
Ana‑Maria Bucur (University of Bucharest)
Annie Lee En-Shiun (Ontario Tech University and University of Toronto)
Sofía García González (imaxin software, University of the Basque Country)
Albert Gatt (Utretch University)
Teresa Lynn (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)
Basab Nath (Assam University)
Patrizia Paggio (University of Malta)
Dhrubajyoti Pathak (National Forensic Sciences University)
Fabian Schmidt (University of Würzburg)
Marijn Schraagen (Utretch University)
A. Seza Doğruöz (University of Ghent)
Marc Tanti (University of Malta)
Sunita Warjri (University of South Bohemia)
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the First Call for Papers for the upcoming workshop:
LLMs4All: LLMs, Big Data, and Multilinguality for All - First Call for Papers
- To be held at IEEE BigData 2025, Macau, China | December 8–11, 2025
- Our page for more details: https://vinnlp.com/llms4all
Workshop Scope:
LLMs4All workshop addresses the intersection of LLMs, Big Data, and Multilinguality, with a focus on equitable access and global inclusivity. It explores how large-scale data pipelines and advanced LLM techniques can work together to overcome linguistic disparities, improve model performance for underrepresented languages, and ensure that language technologies are built for all.
We invite contributions across NLP, machine learning, data science, linguistics, and AI ethics, with particular emphasis on low-resource languages in light of this year’s host location, Macau. We also welcome research addressing the broader multilingual landscape, covering both technical innovations and socially responsible AI practices.
We invite submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics:
* LLMs for Low-Resource Languages
* LLMs for Specific Domains
* Scalable Data Collection and Curation
* Cross-Lingual and Multilingual Learning
* Efficient and Inclusive Model Training
* Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
* Multimodal Language Models
* Real-World Applications
* Big Data Infrastructure and Pipelines
* Ethical and Fair NLP
* Benchmarking and Evaluation
* Regional Case Studies and Collaborations
Submission Guidelines
* Paper Length: Up to 10 pages (including references)
* Format: IEEE 2-column conference format
* Formatting Templates: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
* Submission Link: Link<https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2025/bigdata25/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S09…>
All accepted papers will be published in the IEEE BigData 2025 Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Important Dates
* First Call For Paper: 27 June 2025
* Second Call For Paper: 28 September 2025
* Final Call For Paper: 17 October 2025
* Submission Deadline: 1 November 2025
* Notification of Acceptance: 15 November 2025
* Camera-Ready Deadline: 23 November 2025
* Workshop Dates: 8-11 December 2025
We encourage you to submit your work and join us in advancing inclusive, multilingual, and scalable language technologies.
If you'd like to share this Call For Paper with colleagues or other relevant mailing lists, feel free to forward this email.
For any inquiries, please contact: cecs.vinnlp(a)vinuni.edu.vn<mailto:cecs.vinnlp@vinuni.edu.vn>
Warm regards,
The LLMs4All Organizing Committee
📢 Potential PhD position with CopeNLU group 📢
🎓 The Danish Advanced Research Academy (DARA) is calling for PhD fellowship applications on topics including AI for a start in Spring 2026.
🗒️ As the fellowship application process requires a letter of support from the prospective main supervisor, I am collecting and screening expressions of interest -- submit yours by 20 July to be considered: https://forms.office.com/e/HZSmgR9nXB
🔍 The PhD programme requires applicants to hold a Master’s degree or be in the process of completing one -- check this and other eligibility conditions here: https://daracademy.dk/fellowship/fellowships-summer-2025
Isabelle Augenstein, Dr. Scient., Ph.D.
Professor and Head of the NLP Section, Department of Computer Science (DIKU)
Co-Lead, Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence
University of Copenhagen
Østervold Observatory
Øster Voldgade 3
1350 Copenhagen
augenstein(a)di.ku.dk<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk>
http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/
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DBpedia Day - Co-located with SEMANTiCS 2025
Vienna, Austria
September 3, 2025
Submission Deadline: July 15, 2025 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Submission Form: https://forms.gle/6KNBMuRsyXs8RiD89
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How can Large Language Models (LLMs) benefit from structured knowledge
like DBpedia? And how can we improve DBpedia to better serve the next
generation of AI systems?
This session invites talks on the intersection of LLMs and Knowledge
Graphs, with a special emphasis on DBpedia. Our goal is to understand
how to make Linked Data more useful, accessible, and trustworthy for
LLM-based applications—and how to evolve DBpedia in this new
AI-dominated landscape.
= Topics of Interest =
* Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with DBpedia
* Prompt engineering for KG-aware LLMs
* Query translation: From natural language to SPARQL using LLMs
* Using LLMs to summarize or explain DBpedia data
* LLMs as interfaces for Linked Data consumption
* Automatic ontology alignment and entity linking with LLMs
* Improving LLM factual accuracy with DBpedia as a trusted source
* Challenges in grounding LLM output in structured knowledge
* Scaling and performance considerations for hybrid KG–LLM systems
* Bias, hallucination, and verification in LLMs using DBpedia
* Use cases: e.g., chatbots, semantic search, Q&A systems powered by
DBpedia + LLMs
We welcome researchers, developers, and industry practitioners working
on concrete tools, early-stage ideas, or critical perspectives.
= Submission Guidelines =
Please submit your proposal by July 15, 2025 (AoE) via:
https://forms.gle/6KNBMuRsyXs8RiD89
Your proposal should include:
* Title
* Abstract (max. 300 words)
* Short biography of the speaker(s)
We are open to a wide range of talk formats: demos, position papers,
success stories, lessons learned, or short idea pitches.
Questions? Reach out to us at dbpedia(a)infai.org or check our event page
https://www.dbpedia.org/blog/dbpedia-day-2025/.
Join us to shape how LLMs and DBpedia can empower each other!
Best regards,
Julia, Milan & Sebastian
DBpedia Team
We have had several requests to extend the submission deadline and we have decided to extend the deadline to the 30th of June 2025.
Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=IWCS/2025/Workshop/CxGs_NLP
Please see details below:
We’re thrilled to see such strong interest in the second iteration of the CxG + NLP workshop, which will be held as part of IWCS. With three exciting keynote speakers confirmed (Prof Adele Goldberg, Prof Thomas Hoffmann, Prof Laura A. Michaelis), we’re looking forward to what promises to be a very engaging event.
The first workshop took place shortly after the release of ChatGPT. Now, two years on, the field has evolved dramatically with the rise of generative AI and the development of new large language models (LLMs). These developments make it all the more important to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the evolving landscape of CxG and NLP. In addition, in the time since the first workshop, there has been significant growth in the community’s interest at this intersection, and we believe it is the ideal moment to have a second iteration where we take stock of these recent developments.
We warmly invite your submissions to the workshop, and would like to remind you of the key dates:
30th of June 2025 (Extended) – Submission deadline
August 1 – Notification of acceptance, registration opens
August 22 – Camera-ready papers due
September 22–23 – IWCS main conference
September 24 – Workshop
September 25 – Community-building event
For more details, please visit the workshop website or get in touch with us: https://sites.google.com/view/2ndcxgsnlpworkshop/home
Bonn Talks on Research Trends in Applied Linguistics - Does AI language
processing align with human processing? (Prof. Scott Crossley,
Vanderbilt University, USA)
June 26, 12.15 pm - 1.45 pm CEST
Hybrid talk - Sign up under:
https://uni-bonn.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/SlGzaF2LTrux4HE06KmdvA
Abstract: This talk will provide an overview of the architecture that
underpins modern AI language models including n-gram language models,
word embedding models, and modern transformer models. These models will
be examined for alignment with theories of human language processing.
The talk will also focus on how AI models recreate classical language
processing pipelines associated with computational linguistics and
language processing.
Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs | Head of Department and Professor of English
Linguistics | Department of English, American and Celtic Studies |
University of Bonn | Rabinstr. 8 53113 Bonn, Germany |
https://uni-bonn.academia.edu/RFuchs |
https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/people/chair/prof-dr-robert-fuchs |
https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/
*Recent publications:*
Coats, S., Basile, A., Morin, C. & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *The YouTube
Corpus of Singapore English Podcasts*. /English World-Wide/
Fuchs, R. et al. (to appear). *Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in
L2 English varieties world-wide: A corpus-based study
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384125000737>*.
/Lingua/.
Fuchs, R., Wiltshire, C. & Sarmah, P. (to appear). *The role of English
in the linguistic ecology of Northeast India
<https://www.academia.edu/125365118/The_role_of_English_in_the_linguistic_ec…>*.
In P. Siemund, et al. (Eds.), /World Englishes in their Local
Multilingual Ecologies/. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Lange, C., & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *English in India*. In R. Hickey &
K. Burridge (Eds.), /New Cambridge History of the English Language/.
Cambridge: CUP.
Fuchs, R. (2025). *Influencing people around the globe - The linguistic
expression of persuasion across varieties of English worldwide*
<https://www.academia.edu/107491904/Influencing_people_around_the_globe_The_…>.
In D. Dayter, & S. Rüdiger (Eds.), /Manipulation, Influence, and
Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language/, 135-156.
Cambridge: CUP.
Bonn Talks on Research Trends in Applied Linguistics - Exploring the
learner lexicon through NLP Approaches (Prof. Scott Crossley, Vanderbilt
University, USA)
June 27, 2.15 pm – 3.45 pm CEST
Hybrid talk - Sign up under:
https://uni-bonn.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/nuoiB3N7Q7qx-ZNKwOm5Hw
Abstract:This talk and its subsequent workshop will explore lexical
properties in the English language and methods to automatically
calculate lexical features. The follow-up workshop will focus on
introducing natural language processing tools for lexical studies and
how they can be used to assess language learner data in a large corpus
collected in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) setting. Data
analysis techniques and hands-on data exploration will provide practical
applications using learner corpora.
Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs | Head of Department and Professor of English
Linguistics | Department of English, American and Celtic Studies |
University of Bonn | Rabinstr. 8 53113 Bonn, Germany |
https://uni-bonn.academia.edu/RFuchs |
https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/people/chair/prof-dr-robert-fuchs |
https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/
*Recent publications:*
Coats, S., Basile, A., Morin, C. & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *The YouTube
Corpus of Singapore English Podcasts*. /English World-Wide/
Fuchs, R. et al. (to appear). *Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in
L2 English varieties world-wide: A corpus-based study
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384125000737>*.
/Lingua/.
Fuchs, R., Wiltshire, C. & Sarmah, P. (to appear). *The role of English
in the linguistic ecology of Northeast India
<https://www.academia.edu/125365118/The_role_of_English_in_the_linguistic_ec…>*.
In P. Siemund, et al. (Eds.), /World Englishes in their Local
Multilingual Ecologies/. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Lange, C., & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *English in India*. In R. Hickey &
K. Burridge (Eds.), /New Cambridge History of the English Language/.
Cambridge: CUP.
Fuchs, R. (2025). *Influencing people around the globe - The linguistic
expression of persuasion across varieties of English worldwide*
<https://www.academia.edu/107491904/Influencing_people_around_the_globe_The_…>.
In D. Dayter, & S. Rüdiger (Eds.), /Manipulation, Influence, and
Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language/, 135-156.
Cambridge: CUP.
The UKP Lab at the Department of Computer Science, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, is looking for a
*** fully funded researcher (PhD or Postdoc)***
for an interdisciplinary project on Agentic LLMs. The project’s goal is to support writing and grading complex documents in education and beyond. You will work at the intersection of Natural Language Processing and agentic AI reasoning and planning embedded in a real-life product-level user-facing platform.
🔗 More information:
https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/jobs_ukp/2025_phd_agent…
📩 Apply here:
https://careers.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukprecruitment
📅 Application deadline: July 11th, 2025
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Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
UKP Lab
Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/
*apologies for cross-postings*
=== Workshop SIR ===
First Workshop on Semantics for Interdisciplinary Research
SIR@IXCS2025 - Düsseldorf - September 24 2025
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https://team.inria.fr/semagramme/first-workshop-on-semantics-for-interdisci…https://openreview.net/group?id=inria.fr/INRIA/S%C3%A9magramme/2025/SIR01
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In recent years, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has increasingly intersected with the humanities and social sciences, offering new methodologies for analyzing textual data, interpreting meaning, and modelling language-based phenomena. The potential for multi-disciplinary research using NLP methods is particularly great in computational semantics (CS), as its ability to process and represent meaning opens up innovative pathways for researchers in history, philosophy, literary studies, political science, etc. This workshop aims to explore how semantic models and tools can be leveraged to tackle traditional and emerging questions in the Humanities in a broader sense (Social Sciences, Law, Economics, Management, Literature, Languages, Art, …).
A major theme of SIR is the role of semantics in NLP applied to the humanities (both statistical and symbolic approaches).
=== Topics to Explore ===
• CS and the humanities: issues, tools and applications
• Quantitative and qualitative approaches as a breakthrough in the Humanities
• NLP transforming humanities issues
• Contributions and limitations for understanding meaning
• Links between formal semantics and neural models
• Ambiguity, polyphony and interpretation in the Humanities
• Ethics and bias in semantic modelling
• Interdisciplinary dialogue between AI, NLP and Humanities
=== Dates ===
• Deadline : July 14th (anywhere on earth)
• Notification : August 25th (anywhere on earth)
• Camera Ready : September 10th (anywhere on earth)
• Workshop : September 24th (anywhere on earth)
=== Submission Information ===
Papers should describe original research and must not exceed 4 pages (with an extra page in the camera ready version for accepted papers). Papers should be submitted no later than 14 July 2025 (anywhere on earth).
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in the ACL Anthology. For inclusion in the proceedings, at least one author must register to the conference and present the paper in person.
Submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing.
=== Submission ===
https://openreview.net/group?id=inria.fr/INRIA/S%C3%A9magramme/2025/SIR01
=== Style Files ===
The workshop follow the IWCS 2025 template see the workshop web page.
=== Organizers ===
Maxime Amblard, Université de Lorraine
Ellen Breitholtz, Gothenburg University
=== Contact ===
maxime.amblard(a)univ-lorraine.fr and ellen.breitholtz(a)ling.gu.se